Debugging on the Mac question.

From	Sean Murphy <mhysnm1964@gmail.com>
Subject	Debugging on the Mac question.
Date	2014-01-03 15:17 +1100
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.4841.1388739343.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Team,


I am a Vision Impaired programmer on the Mac and Window platforms. I have started to learn Python. The biggest road block I have is the ability of debugging my simple scripts. The IDLE program does not work with the screen readers I use on the Mac or Windows. A screen reader is a program that grabs the text on the screen and converts it into speech output, at least this is the 50000 feet explanation.  I cannot see the screen at all.

I have looked at eclipse and it doesn't work with Voice-Over (the screen reader on the Mac). I have java issues on my windows machine preventing me running this app.

If I use $python -d script.py the debugger doesn't seem to trigger on the mac. 

So how I can perform a debug on a script so I can step through it, set up break points, watch variables, etc. 

It is really annoying me, since under Perl I just added the -d switch and had a full debugger that worked at the console level.

Sean

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Debugging on the Mac question. Sean Murphy <mhysnm1964@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 15:17 +1100
  Re: Debugging on the Mac question. Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 09:08 +0000
    Re: Debugging on the Mac question. Sean Murphy <mhysnm1964@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 23:38 +1100

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